I agree. Airport hub, easy to access from everywhere, enough hotel bed rooms. Also the Netherlands do have quite a large rugby-population.

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How to grow rugby worldwide?Look at the world ranking in July. Teams ranked 1-10 have to play one team from 11-20 (they don't play in a regular competition) away the next year. 11-20 play 21-30 away and so on. Yes, it really is that simple.

How to grow rugby worldwide?Look at the world ranking in July. Teams ranked 1-10 have to play one team from 11-20 (they don't play in a regular competition) away the next year. 11-20 play 21-30 away and so on. Yes, it really is that simple.

Is it really difficult for the leadership of the World and European rugby to understand that the weather in Europe is different?I think that 50% of the blame is that Russia does not qualifiy for the World Cup in that we play at a very inconvenients time and because of this loses points.

Vova12 wrote:Is it really difficult for the leadership of the World and European rugby to understand that the weather in Europe is different?I think that 50% of the blame is that Russia does not qualifiy for the World Cup in that we play at a very inconvenients time and because of this loses points.

In fact Russia plays in the off season and gives points to rival.

Why can not play in April - May and in the autumn?

Because Georgia, Romania, Spain and Germany would have an even harder time to convince French clubs to release their players when they are playing the most important games of the season. Try to convince all your REC rivals to implement a change that only benefits one country, I think it won't be easy.

Armchair Fan wrote:Because Georgia, Romania, Spain and Germany would have an even harder time to convince French clubs to release their players when they are playing the most important games of the season. Try to convince all your REC rivals to implement a change that only benefits one country, I think it won't be easy.

I think that when the rules changed you needed to convince Russia and not vice versa.

There is still a probable majority willing to play in February and March for various reasons (marketing and aspirations to be somehow connected to 6N)... I could see Romania switching if the weight of Super Liga increases, but for the rest, it's hard.

Hello again, after a long absence! Great that all this fuss about national teams is over, time for some club rugby! Regarding weather in Timisoara, temperature on Saturday should be 8-10 degrees C and, according to club's facebook, there might be some live-streaming (they are "working on it", whatever that means).

Canalina wrote:"What will we do tomorrow, Brain?""We will send dicks to Rugby Europe and the white westerns and we will conquer the World!"

I do not understand why you are in 6 nations .Perhaps this is convenient when there is no competition.With fair competition Italy can not even qualify for the Challeng Cap ...

Maybe they sent Cannoli and those are more popular than Blini and Bortschtsch or dick pics.

How to grow rugby worldwide?Look at the world ranking in July. Teams ranked 1-10 have to play one team from 11-20 (they don't play in a regular competition) away the next year. 11-20 play 21-30 away and so on. Yes, it really is that simple.

That surprised a bit me too, but I think it's a good choice to pick up sometime referees from the same nation of one of the two playing teams. If they are good referees -and at that level they must be good referees- they should be able to avoid favoritisms. Anyway, it's not the first case: in march Mitrea refereed Connacht v Zebre.In Italy we use to indicate, in the national championship matches, the city of the referees: Piardi from Brescia, Mitrea from Livorno... to point out that they are impartial when they referee a game between two other cities. I think we should abandon those indications. A good referee is impartial and rugby is a noble sport, fans and players must accept a referee without asking his provenience. I think...

In the Pro14 they shout it from the rooftops about having "neutral" refs, but routinely appoint refs from the union of one of the sides. They claim neutrality means the referee is not from the same region/Provence as one of the sides.

Armchair Fan wrote:Because Georgia, Romania, Spain and Germany would have an even harder time to convince French clubs to release their players when they are playing the most important games of the season. Try to convince all your REC rivals to implement a change that only benefits one country, I think it won't be easy.

I think that when the rules changed you needed to convince Russia and not vice versa.

Actually, for a long time in the late 00's/early 2010's, Russia, Georgia and Romania were ALL pushing hard for a later window. Spain and Portugal fought against it like the Celtic Unions fighting against any expansion, ever.Times have changed, but this was/is not a one-country issue. Iberia blocked it and everyone then settled into 6N mirror is best if we want France-based players mode.Russia may seriously want to look at the Australia football model, Asia does make more sense at the moment.

Armchair Fan wrote:Because Georgia, Romania, Spain and Germany would have an even harder time to convince French clubs to release their players when they are playing the most important games of the season. Try to convince all your REC rivals to implement a change that only benefits one country, I think it won't be easy.

I think that when the rules changed you needed to convince Russia and not vice versa.

Actually, for a long time in the late 00's/early 2010's, Russia, Georgia and Romania were ALL pushing hard for a later window. Spain and Portugal fought against it like the Celtic Unions fighting against any expansion, ever.Times have changed, but this was/is not a one-country issue. Iberia blocked it and everyone then settled into 6N mirror is best if we want France-based players mode.Russia may seriously want to look at the Australia football model, Asia does make more sense at the moment.

They simply much easier to naturaliz French than to develop rugby in the country ...